Johann Friedrich Ardin

Johann Friedrich Ardin (* around 1680, possibly in Geneva ; † around 1720) was a miniature painter who worked at the court of Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz in Düsseldorf at the beginning of the 18th century .

Life

Miniature portrait of Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz , 1712, Museum Kunstpalast

On Palatine Hof Johann Wilhelm in Dusseldorf there were six miniaturist, two of which their miniatures on copper enamel melted. These two were Ardin, whose origins are believed to be in Switzerland , and Peter Boy . For the elector, who appointed him court painter , Ardin created a large number of miniature portraits, preferably portraits of the electoral family and their close relatives of the European nobility.

The Bavarian National Museum , which came into the possession of the electoral estate through the House of Wittelsbach , has 21 of these miniatures alone, including portraits of Grand Duke Cosimo III. de 'Medici , the Grand Prince Ferdinando and his sister Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici .

literature

Theodor Levin : Contributions to the history of artistic endeavors in the house of Pfalz-Neuburg . Part III: Johann Wilhelm . In: Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine . Volume 23 (1910), p. 28.
Ardin, Johann Friedrich . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 76 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Johann Friedrich Ardin , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Ardin, Johann Friedrich , hit list in the object database of the Bavarian National Museum
Johann Friedrich Ardin , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

↑ Assumed data from Wikidata
↑ Renate Eikelmann, Ingolf Bauer (ed.): The Bavarian National Museum 1855–2005. 150 years of collecting, researching, exhibiting . Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3777428857 , p. 278
^ Karl Leopold Strauven : About artistic life and work in Düsseldorf to the Düsseldorf painter school under director Schadow . Düsseldorf 1862, p. 24 ( Google Books )

personal data
SURNAME	Ardin, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Miniature painter
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1680
PLACE OF BIRTH	unsure: Geneva
DATE OF DEATH	around 1720

[1] Assumed data from Wikidata

[2] Renate Eikelmann, Ingolf Bauer (ed.): The Bavarian National Museum 1855–2005. 150 years of collecting, researching, exhibiting . Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3777428857 , p. 278

[3] Karl Leopold Strauven : About artistic life and work in Düsseldorf to the Düsseldorf painter school under director Schadow . Düsseldorf 1862, p. 24 ( Google Books )